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So, the much spoken of ‘Khalid dirty deeds’ dossier is out and about. I haven’t seen the full text of the dossier, and so, like many of you, have been dependent on news reports as to its contents. Khalid obviously is not losing sleep over it, and has got his boys to go over to […]

If government statistics are to be believed, there are just over 419,000 households in Kuala Lumpur. Assuming each household has 5 members, that’s over 2.1 million people. Government statistics would have us further believe that only 3,354 households, or 16,770 people, in Kuala Lumpur, live in poverty. They achieve these figures by using a poverty […]

Note : The moderator of this blog fully associates with the views expressed by Saudara Dr Jayakumar here. ___________________________ On 14th September 2013, the Prime Minister announced a RM 30 billion package of programs to “empower” the Bumiputra population in the country who are still lagging behind economically. The data quoted by UMNO leaders is that the mean […]

(Reflections on the 50th Malaysia Day) by Jayanath Appudurai ______________________________ For how long more… Do we suffer these thieving fools? Masquerading as our elected ‘trustees’, Legitimised by a flawed electoral system, Stage-managed by a beholden bunch of spineless clowns! How long more ..? Do we accept these lying guardians of the electoral system, Pretending to […]

“Too much money that belongs to Malaysia’s people is being siphoned off overseas. The government must rise above partisan political interest and act in the national interest to stop this” – excerpt from the petition, as reported by Malaysiakini. “It serves no purpose to take the matter to the MACC or Najib, he too has […]